Chapter 194: I'm about to go crazy
The Datang businessmen who arrived later have been going crazy these days.
The business here is so good, it's only been a few days, and every family and every businessman is going crazy to make money.
Thanks to the Lanling King and Tiance Mansion, in fact, it is not that there have been merchants here before, such as the previous big food fleet, but these local natives have no business for a while, they prefer to grab them directly with knives, so over the years, all kinds of good things here have not been exchanged much by the big cannibals, and most of them have accumulated until now.
Now, King Lanling has subdued these local natives in the first battle, and these natives will obediently take their good things to do business with the Tang merchants.
What do these natives who have just come out of the mountains and dense forests know, and want to exchange the porcelain bowl for their pearls, the other party stretched out a finger, pointing at himself, and pointing at the Tang Dynasty merchants, the Tang Dynasty merchants just wanted to say that a porcelain bowl for a pearl is too little, the native grabbed the porcelain bowl, directly loaded a bowl of pearls and brought it to the Tang Dynasty merchants, and found that the Tang people on the opposite side were dumbfounded, thinking that it was too little, and grabbed a large handful, and exchanged it for a porcelain bowl and thought it was a big advantage.
I thought that the mahogany and spice wood in Linyi were good enough, but when I arrived here, I found that compared with here, the agarwood produced in Linyi was a slag. Seeing that these elegant Tang people seemed to be interested in the timber pile in their home, they were about to give it away, and the merchants of the Tang Dynasty were unwilling to take advantage of these natives in vain, and insisted on taking a piece of linen in exchange, which simply moved these natives.
The Tang Lion City, which is the location of Singapore in later generations, Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi stood under an umbrella. Look at a castle under construction not far away. This time more than 300 merchant ships. More than 50,000 bales of cement were brought. Xiao Qubing used tens of thousands of captives and slaves to hurry up, just to see that this multi-functional castle could be built as soon as possible before leaving, and at this moment it has begun to take shape.
A shopkeeper from the Four Seas Trading Company came over and reported to him the progress of various tasks: "Lord Wang, the plum blossom dipterocarp and Su Hexiang that can be received nearby." We have collected benzoin, white brain incense, the best cloves, agarwood, and sandalwood, especially Qi Nanxiang, all of which we have collected. ”
Xiao Quzhi nodded, the valuable things here, in addition to the hard currency of gold, silver and jewelry, are two spices and all kinds of precious mahogany, ebony, agarwood, and some local rare things. Rhino horns, amber or something.
Precious wood such as mahogany is of high value. But after all, these things are too rich in the South China Sea, and the influx of so many good things into Datang will inevitably cause great depreciation, and it will no longer be a good thing.
When you go back, you have to tell them about these mahogany, pearls, and gems, and tell them not to put too much into the market at once, and to keep the hungry market in order to get greater benefits, right?
Learn, we have always done this in Shihai Trading Company!
But you can't say it now, if you say it now, they will also come to collect these resin spices, and how will they make a lot of money when the time comes?
"Tell these local natives that if they find agarwood, especially this top-quality Qi Nan incense, they must not burn it, and sell it to the Lion City, silk, porcelain, sugar, wine, crystal, they can exchange it for anything."
"Yes." The Dharma Protector nodded, and began to talk about another thing: "Lord Wang, we really found the golden mountain you said. ”
"Huh?!" Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi almost said in unison.
At the beginning, Xiao Qu was ill and fooled the powerful of the family to go to the South China Sea to make a fortune, and said that there was a treasure island, three or five copper islands, and more than a dozen spice islands.
But only the two of them knew that the Treasure Island that Xiao Quzhi said was at least seven or eight thousand miles away from here, and the Spice Island was at least five or six thousand miles away, so how could they really find it near here.
The shopkeeper said with a serious face: "It's true, just before their Sri Buddha died, the capital city of Palembang was more than five hundred miles south-east, near a port called Bandar Lampung, which is said to be a gold-silver symbiotic mine, and there is a river nearby, and the water is full of golden light. ”
Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi glanced at each other, and said loudly: "I just said, the South China Sea is full of gold and silver, get ready, tomorrow we will set off tomorrow to have a look." ”
The two of them grinned and prepared to jump on a Chinese ship, so that they could take a look nearby, since the South China Sea is full of treasures, maybe there will be new discoveries after walking around.
"The Great Commander, the messenger of the Wolf Tooth Cultivator asks to see you." Without waiting for the two of them to get on the boat, Nan Jiyun came over, accompanied by Zi Hao and two messengers from Wolf Tooth Repair.
"Your envoy has also seen it, we only have 3,000 marines, and we still have to protect the merchants, how can we spare manpower to attack the country of Floan for you?"
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"Borrowing a boat? How can this be done, there are so many pirates here, and we still have to protect our merchant ships! ”
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"Borrow weapons, Tiance crossbows, this is not good...... It's okay to cross the knife, what can you get in exchange...... Gold? We don't want gold, we've just discovered it...... Okay, in exchange for people, a hundred captives with a horizontal knife...... Kerosene? I can sell it to you, but the question is what are you going to get in exchange for ......."
Four days later, near the gold mine of Lampung Harbor, the envoys of the Florian Kingdom found Xiao Quai, their strength was originally about the same as that of Wolf Tooth Xiu, the number of people was the same, the courage was equal, and the intelligence was also equal, and they played chess against their opponents.
Due to the backwardness of smelting technology, most of their previous weapons were bronze, and this place is rich in tin, bronze weapons are also brittle, and iron weapons are also available, but they are not as good as bronze weapons, and the people of Linyi are also bad, and they refuse to export good iron tools to them.
The warriors of the Floan Kingdom were able to draw with Wolf Tooth Xiu before, but they didn't expect to be suddenly beaten by the other party in the past few days. The reason is that the hundreds of warriors on the other side each have a snow-bright horizontal knife in their hands, and they can easily cut off the weapons in the hands of the warriors on their side.
After asking what he meant, Xiao Qu was embarrassed: "This is difficult to do, we have an agreement with Wolf Tooth Repair." ”
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"Are you also willing to surrender to our Datang? This is welcome...... Just ask us to help you destroy the wolf tooth repair? This can't work, we Datang can't be untrustworthy, otherwise who will believe me in the future? ”
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"You want to buy a horizontal knife too? Yes. Let's get what to get in exchange. We don't want gold and silver jewelry. What we have for this is ...... Okay, also exchange the captives for ......"
Soon, the two sides of Wolf Yaxiu and Floan, in order to compete for the second place in this area, fought with blood.
And the climate here is warm and the products are abundant, even if everyone doesn't work. No one will starve, the strength of the two sides is equal, and the hatred is accumulating, so the fight has evolved into a full-scale war, and it seems that if you don't fight for ten or eight years, you can't tell the winner.
A/Bei Harumi and Sarufei Shinzo and the 500 Japanese who came with the ship were all stupid, first of all, the wealth of this place, it is richer than Linyi, and there is more gold than Linyi. There are more mahogany than in Linyi, and the quality is even better. There are more spices than in Linyi......
And the people here are still so weak and so stupid. The 2,000 Heavenly Army, led by Wolf Yaxiu, almost wiped out the 60,000 or 70,000 troops of Sri Buddha, the strongest force here; The Tiance army sold a hundred horizontal knives and a hundred catties of whale oil on each side, and they exchanged it for 30,000 prisoners.
While they sigh, their hearts are unbalanced, jealous, and hateful!
The imbalance in my heart is why such a group of wild people occupy such a rich land, they fight all day long, they don't have to work but they don't go hungry; And the people of Japan have to work every day, but they always starve to death! Heaven is so unfair!
They were jealous that the Tang people had only used twenty-two ships, and the sailors and more than 7,000 marines had almost conquered such a large piece of land and sea frontier. Now he only sold 200 horizontal knives to obtain so many rights, the right to manage, the right to build a city, the right to collect taxes, the right to open mines, and all kinds of privileges of the Tang people in this area, and in exchange for 30,000 captives to build cities and mine for the Tang people.
The hatred is that they see all kinds of benefits, and they also want to contact one or both parties privately, sell some weapons or something, in exchange for some benefits.
Although they followed Xiao Quai's illness to the South China Sea this time, they only brought linen cloth, silk, porcelain, etc. from Datang, but they did make a lot of money, at least a boatload and a half of precious wood, pearls and gems, etc., are almost a sack, the harvest is not small, but it is naturally better to earn more.
However, the king of Lanling and the Four Seas Trading Company did not allow them to do this, and the king of Lanling specially sent people to warn them, saying that they Japanese dared to do these things that they should not do in private, disrupting their own deployment, and killing all of their 500 Japanese.
They were frightened all of a sudden, they didn't think that Xiao Qubing was scaring them, they believed that Xiao Qubing really dared to do this.
So they hated it in their hearts, but they could only do nothing, especially Ape Fei Jinsan, since he saw Xiao Qubing for the first time, he was so envious and jealous, taking Xiao Qubing as his own example and as his goal, he vowed to achieve such an achievement as Xiao Qubing one day.
But his idol and goal are very contemptuous of himself, and even look down on the Japanese, which makes him obedient and humble on the outside, but proud and arrogant on the inside, he is simply painful to the bone marrow, so the previous envy, jealousy and worship finally became one word - hate!
"An/Peijun, this place is too rich, full of gold, silver and jewelry, rich in products, and densely populated. After Datang conquered here, with the resources and money here, with the ability of King Lanling, and the application of various new technologies, Datang will soon usher in rapid development! ”
"Yes, with the ability of King Lanling, it will definitely be possible." An/Bei Qingming had a complicated expression: "Shangcang is too partial to the Tang people, the Tang Dynasty is already so powerful, and has the most vast and rich land, and now it is about to have such a rich and large sea territory."
If Shangcang didn't send the King of Lanling to the Tang Dynasty, but gave us Japan, Ape Feijun, if you think about it, we can send sea ships to occupy this place without the Tang Dynasty's knowledge, and then a steady stream of resources and money will be transported back to Japan, and even we can all move here! ”
"Ann/Bei-kun, do you know how much I envy that Xiao Qu's illness? He simply knows everything, can do anything, and can do whatever he wants.
'This is already my Datang land, and this sea area is my Datang inland sea', when he said this, how domineering and how natural. Sri Buddha died against it, and then within a few days, the entire Sri Buddha died was wiped out by the king of Lanling, and this place really became the land of the Tang Dynasty, the inland sea of the Tang Dynasty!
Look, he Xiao is sick and talks and does things, that's how he says it! ”
He was angry, pulled out his imitation horizontal knife, slashed it more than ten times, and then gasped: "If it goes on like this, sooner or later, the whole world will occupy their Datang!" How can we survive in a small country? Sooner or later, we, the Japanese Diet, will become slaves of the Tang people, just like the people here! ”
An/Bei Qingming glanced around nervously, and saw that there were no outsiders, so he relaxed, and said with a solemn expression: "Ape Feijun said cautiously, Datang has no such thoughts about our country. The Tang Dynasty is so powerful, and the King of Lanling is so omniscient, as long as we are obedient, abide by our disciples' duties, and attach their tails, we will definitely be able to get a piece of the pie, how can we do what he thinks again! ”
Ape Fei Jinzo glared and said with a wry smile: "If the King of Lanling is willing to marry Shizuka, I naturally won't think about him, but don't forget that the King of Lanling looks down on us Japan; Don't forget, King Lanling refused to accept us as disciples, and he refused to let us enter Tiance Academy to study at the beginning; This time, he took people to Spice Island, bringing five surnames and seven wangs, four surnames in Guanzhong, and people from the Jiangnan Chinese ethnic group, but he refused to take us there!
We want to follow him and develop rapidly with him, but what if he doesn't let him? ”
An/Bei Qingming was stunned and said, "Then what do you mean?" ”
"We have to be prepared for both......"
Xiao Quzhi, who is thousands of miles away, doesn't know what Ape Fei Jinzo is thinking at the moment, to be honest, Xiao Qubing doesn't care what these Japanese think, since they promised to sell the five-year mineral mining rights to the Four Seas Trading Company for 1 million yuan, and build the concession, this good relationship between the two sides will be destroyed in an instant!
The end result is that no matter what they do in Japan, they will not be able to please them.
At this moment, Xiao Qu's illness is in an indescribable pain, out of Java all the way to the east, along the island chain for thousands of miles, and then close to the Banda Sea in the future, where the Spice Island is.
In fact, the spice islands here are more than a dozen volcanic islands not far apart, and there are larger spice islands in the Maluku Islands a little further east, but Xiao Qubing doesn't want to run hundreds of miles more.
The fleet has been wandering around this sea area for a few days, almost island by island, and also found that there are some spice trees scattered on several small islands, when the sailors came to report with great joy, Xiao Qu was sick and went to see it, and then he was disappointed again and again, according to records, those spice islands are full of spices!
Repeating the same work every day, opening your eyes, and facing the same scenery, such a boring life is easy to collapse.
Xiao Quzhi also expected these problems early in the morning, so before leaving, he also prepared some card games in advance, so along the way, the employees of the trading company who were not on duty changed their tricks every day to play various games, tractors, landlords, studs, ********, and the Three Kingdoms Kill all played over and over again.
But Xiao Quzhi didn't have the heart to play these games, originally he was a person who could endure loneliness, but now as soon as he was free, he couldn't help but miss He Ke'er, who was more than 10,000 miles away.
Counting the days, the two have been separated for 96 days, and I don't know how she is now, whether she is pregnant or not, how she is pregnant, and whether she has a big physiological reaction?
As soon as he thought that he had only been married for a few months, he would leave him behind and go to the ocean, Xiao Qu's heart was like a knife, and he couldn't go back immediately!
But as the commander of the fleet, these emotions could not be expressed, so he became more and more silent every day, even ignoring his beard, his beard was unkempt, and he looked at the sea and sky in a daze every day.
Li Qi saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, and he could only pray secretly every day, hoping to find those spice islands as soon as possible, otherwise, Master would have to go crazy! (To be continued.) )